Child Rights
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Poland abortion ruling sparks ‘women’s strike’
Crowds have protested in several cities for the seventh-day running against the decision that outlawed terminations on the grounds of…
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Number of children on remand in Victoria doubled in decade to 2020
Up to two-thirds of children denied bail in Victoria were in custody unnecessarily, the state’s children’s commissioner has said, after…
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The teen activists who have stopped hundreds of child marriages in Bangladesh
When Dola Akter Reba was only 12, ‘matchmakers’ in the neighbourhood came knocking on her mother’s door, believing the young…
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ACT agrees to raise age of criminal responsibility
The Australian Capital Territory’s Legislative Assembly has voted to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10, to 14, making…
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Ghislaine Maxwell trained underage girls as sex slaves, documents allege
Ghislaine Maxwell sexually abused underage girls and joined Jeffrey Epstein in directing Virginia Roberts Giuffre to be sexually abused by…
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We worked with children in prison. They should never have been there
Now, we are fighting to shut the door to police and prison cells in response to young children by raising…
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Why has a two-year-old girl lived her entire life in Australian immigration detention?
The father of one of them says he hasn’t been allowed to visit his daughter for months, and amid the…
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The stolen children
In the shadow of the whitewashed Catholic church in Ainaro, Timor-Leste, Kalistru walked down the steps onto the dusty road.…
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UN says 140 million girls are `missing’
The agency, known as UNFPA, also said that one-in-five marriages that take place today involves an underage girl and an…
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China imposes forced abortion, sterilisation on Uyghurs, investigation shows
While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than…
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2 million children in Yemen are at risk of dying of starvation
Unicef urgently needs funds to continue its work supporting children who are in catastrophic crisis The Irish Times Yemen is…
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Dujuan Hoosan awarded the Liberty Victoria Young Voltaire Human Rights Award
Dujuan was chosen for his courage and determination in challenging governments to change the age they imprison children. At the…
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The Child Inside: In Australia, We Prosecute 10-Year-Olds, Especially If They’re Black.
And yet kids as young as 10 are still being charged with criminal offences. Warwick Jones investigates New Matilda A…
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Americans march for racial justice on Juneteenth anniversary
Americans have taken to the streets of cities around the country to demand racial justice on a day heavy with…
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Doctors accused of blocking abortions in Northern Ireland despite legalisation
Women seeking abortions in Northern Ireland are still struggling to access services. Although abortion was legalised more than two months ago,…
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Woman’s search for birth parents leads to landmark South Korea adoption ruling
The ruling is the first of its kind in South Korea, which Amnesty International once dubbed the “longest and largest…
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